Comment 4 for bug 445154

Well, I am, but I know why. I created a symbolic link to my external hard drive, which I believe is formatted in FAT32 and does not support hard links.

I'd like the backups to be stored on the external hard drive, but I get this error every time I run apt-get or Synaptic. I haven't spent any time troubleshooting it yet.

--- On Thu, 10/15/09, Chuck Short <email address hidden> wrote:

> From: Chuck Short <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 445154] Re: package backuppc 3.1.0-4ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 10:09 AM
> Relevant error:
> Setting up backuppc (3.1.0-4ubuntu1.1) ...
>
> Your MPM seems to be threaded. Selecting cgid instead of
> cgi.
>
> Module cgid already enabled
>
> * Starting backuppc...
>
> 2009-10-07 01:00:33 Can't create a test hardlink between a
> file in
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc and /var/lib/backuppc/cpool.
> Either these are
> different file systems, or this file system doesn't support
> hardlinks,
> or these directories don't exist, or there is a permissions
> problem, or
> the file system is out of inodes or full.  Use df, df
> -i, and ls -ld to
> check each of these possibilities. Quitting...
>
> invoke-rc.d: initscript backuppc, action "start" failed.
>
> dpkg: error processing backuppc (--configure):
>
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
> status
>
> Hi I was wondering if you were still having this problem.
>
> Regards
> chuck
>
> ** Changed in: backuppc (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: backuppc (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New =>
> Incomplete
>
> --
> package backuppc 3.1.0-4ubuntu1.1 failed to
> install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script
> returned error exit status 1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445154
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